American remakes of Asian horror

An article on io9, explains the differences in the American remakes of Asian original horrors, and the results aren't all that surprising.
The Ring (Verbinski, 2002)
"Gore Verbinski's remake stays pretty close to Hideo Nakata's original, but is faster paced and has more gruesome imagery, plus the cursed videotape has a lot more stuff on it."

Which accounts for the 'obsession' the Western world had suddenly picked up in the late 90s for more gorey imagery.

The Grudge (Shimizu, 2004)

"Director Takashi Shimizu directed both the Japanese and U.S. versions"

So here they used the exact same director to get the same effect as the original (Ju-On) was one of the scariest films out at the time in Japan and so for the Western audience to get the same effect, they bagged the same director.